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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allen Tebbs Rogers JR.

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ALLEN TEBBS ROGERS JR

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 24, 1942 – May 20, 1967

Service record

Allen Tebbs Rogers JR, of Johnson City, Tennessee, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 67

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 24, 1942
Home of record
Johnson City, Tennessee (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 20, 1967
Age
24
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 67

Same unit, same day

From Johnson City

All 33 names from Johnson City →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.